Apparatus for cleaning walls and removing old wall-paper therefrom.



'No. 837,877. PATENTPD DEG. 4, 1906.

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APPLIOATIONV I'LL-ED H1349, 1906.

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ROBERT LEE ORCUIT AND JAMES APPARATUS FOR CLEANING WALLS AND REMOVINGOLD WALL-PAPER THEREFROM.

No. 837,877. Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906.

Application fil d February 19, 1906. Serial No. 301,958.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ROBERT LEE ORCUTT and JAMEs W. WILSON, citizens ofthe United States, and residents of St. Louis, Missouri, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Cleaning IVa-llsand Removing Old Nail-Paper Therefrom, of which the following is aspecification containing a full, clear, and exact description, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

Our invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning walls and removingold wall-paper therefrom; and the object of our invention is toconstruct a simple inexpensive apparatus or device wherein steam isgenerated and to provide said device with a nozzle through which thesteam discharges.

A further object of our invention is to construct a device which may becarried in the hand and which can be advantageously used 1,1 cleaningwalls or painted woodwork and which is particularly applicable for usein removing old wallpaper or burlap and like material from walls andceilings.

To the above purposes our invention consists of certain novel featuresof construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter morefully set forth, pointed out in our claims, and illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in whieh Figure 1 is a side elevation of ourimproved apparatus. with the horizontal nozzle removed from thesteamdischarge spout. Fig, 2 is a vertical section taken through thecenter of our improved apparatus, Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken.on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig 4 is a plan view of a steam-noz zlc thatis connected to a flexible tube, such as a hose, and as contemplated byour invention.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates ahydrocarbonreservoir, which is provided in the center of its top with asuitable burner 2. Extending upwardly from one side of this reservoir 1is a segmental plate 3, and secured to the upper end thereof is acircular box 4, which forms a stean'i-chamber. Leading upwardly from thefront side of this steam-chamber is a Hat tube 5, through which thesteam discharges after being generated in the steam-chamber. 6designates a rcctangularly-bent nozzle having a flattened discharge end7, and which nozzle is detachably positioned on the upper end of thetlat tube ,5 and for the f purpose of discharging the outlet!) is a tube10, which leads to an inletopening 1], formed through the wall at therear side of the steamchamber 4. A suitable valve 12 is arranged in thetube 10 for controlling the passage of water through said tube, whichvalve is operated by a disk 13, having a milled edge.

A strap-handle 14 is fixed at its upper end to the rearside of thereservoir 8 and at its lower end to the rear side of the reservoir 1,and by means of this handle the apparatus is held and manipulated whilein use.

A pair of vertically-arranged strengthening-straps 15 connect the frontsides of the reservoirs 1 and 8.

Our improved apparatus is prepared for use by partially filling thereservoir 1 with a suitab e oil, such as gasolene, and filling thereservoir 8 with water. Pressure is pumped up within the reservoir 1 bya suitable airpump, and thus the oil. in said reservoir is forced outthrough the burner, where it is ignited, and the ilame resultingtherefrom is deflected upwardly onto the under surface of thesteam-chamber 4. The, valve 12 is slightly opened, so as to allow asmall amount of water to discharge into the steam-chamber, and saidwater will become quickly heated and transforn'ied into steam. The steamleaving the chamber 4 Wlll pass upwardly through the tube charge fromthe upper end thereof against the woodwork or onto the wall-paper,against which. the upper end of the tube 5 is held. When the nozzle 6 ispositioned on the upper end of the tube 5, the steam will be dischargedhorizontally onto the woodwork that is being cleaned or onto the oldwall-pal l i l l i per that is being removed. The valve 12 can be openedwhenever it is desired to replenish the water-supply in thesteam-chainbcr 4-, or said valve can be slightly opened, so that a smallquantity of water will feed continu ously into the steam-chamber. Thehot steam (liscliar ing from the end of the tube 5 or from the flattenedend 7 of the nozzle 6 quickly softens the paste of the old Wall-pm per,so that said paper can be easily and 5 and will dis- W. WILSON, OF ST.LOUIS, MISSOURI.

quickly removed from the WiLlli-B and ceilings. The swam-jet can alsolic i'lisclnngczi clircctly onto i lls cz' pa sis; in removing dust atel. therefrom.

In Fig. wc have slicwn n stcznn-nnzzlc dctcclmbly secured to n,llcxllilc Milan, and. by this construction steznn can be taken l'rcm. a.radiatcr c1" otlicr sni'lnlilc sciucc cl shenansu ply.

By our inipnii'vci'l zippmnlns paint-ad or flescccd walls AUi c-cilinand painl'ssl V."O :(l-- Work can be and cllicisnli ly cleaned, and jct0i til "3nd at whcl-cvcir point d-i? and ceilings and 112mm silnilsr ccc' mg l-licrcii' n'n.

'llxc apparatus is j simplc in construction, is very mnnpcct, can be@asL-y lnn'idlcil, and is very ciilcicnt in use.

We claim ing tlicxc'from, a, heating device kLll'tHlgGfl lic- 1 Heaththe stcmnclmnilior, a \vaicv-rvscrvmr loczit-cd LllOVO Lil'sslaw:m-clnnnlw'r, ccnnc'ctinn lmm the wnlvc2=-r0scrv n in stccnkclmmlmand a val e lomitcd in s tubular (-cnnoci ion; sub. nlizillf, lied.

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3. in an apparatus of the class described, a l1 zlx'ncm'lion-burner, asimnrclmmber lo- (2 cl-(l u-lmvc sand burner, n tubclcading upwardlyfrcn'i said "56&!11(3l).8,1libel, a horizonl}'llSZ-Oi-il(l muzzle(lemchably seated on the uppci end of said tube, a Water-reservoirpcsiticwcil on top of tlic steam-chamber; a iliular wnnccticn lcmiingfrom thcwatcrfor controlling the passage of water through the tubularconnection, and a handlc connecting @11 Waiterncwwcir and the burner;

sulistmitially as sp :ilicd.

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